Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Prayer--ardent desire and loving attention

The Manna of the Soul Meditations for Each Day of the Year By Paolo Segneri: "by the wind And desiring to teach her daughters the noblest possible form of prayer she in her Way of Perfection declared this to be the Pater noster the favourite meditation of so many holy Doctors before her and of so many after her Do thou therefore choose this Saint as thy advocate to teach thee how to practise both these profitable parts of which we have been speaking that of the swallow so as to commend thyself fervently to God and that of the dove so as to meditate carefully at the same time And since there is no better means of doing both these things than this prayer the Pater noster I am going to propose it to thee as the subject of meditation for several mornings according to the simplest and most profitable interpretations which I have gathered after examining if I am not mistaken most of the books which treat professedly of it And this I have
"...And, desiring to teach her daughters the noblest possible prayer..."

Sacred and Immaculate Hearts

Sacred and Immaculate Hearts

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Pillar of Scourging of Our Lord JESUS

Pillar of Scourging of Our Lord JESUS

Shroud of Turin

Shroud of Turin